If you just need control there are other apps in the app store that can control a TiVo. The main purpose of the TiVo app is to find, schedule or watch content none of which make sense for a Mini since it's just basically a proxy for the host TiVo. The only thing that really worked for the Mini was the control, and as I said there are other apps that can do that.

But why remove the functionality if it wasn't causing problems? Why force me to use a different 3rd-party app to choose a show from my Now Playing list to watch on my Mini or pause live TV or change the channel?

And if you did happen to be using the app with the Mini and decided you wanted to schedule a recording or modify a season pass, it "forwarded" the requests to the Premiere without issue.

It just doesn't make any sense to take away useful, supported functionality for no apparent reason.

Yeah I don't know why they removed it, since it didn't cause any problems. Maybe it conflicted with the new "What to watch" functionality?

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I suspect the issue is that they did not work out all the interactions between using a TiVo mini and a TiVo stream. For example, if you were watching something on the mini the app still considered it a full TiVo and presented the "Watch on iPad" button which should transition it over to an iPad, but if you selected it everything failed. It is conceptually doable, but the app would need to know to talk back to the main TiVo redirect the stream from the mini to the stream and then grab the end point. Unfortunately there were several edge cases like this that would fail in ways that were non-obvious to most users, so it might have been a case of removing a partially working feature in order to solve a bunch of support issues.

It also would not shock me if they do not want to invest in solving those problems at this time as the infrastructure to support it might be different once they get dynamic tuner allocation working.